Table 1

Sample characteristics by awareness of e-cigarette industry practices and anti-e-cigarette attitudes (n=1329)

Demographic characteristics	Sample		Awareness of e-cigarette industry practices	Anti-e-cigarette attitudes
	Sample		Awareness of e-cigarette industry practices	Express independence by not using e-cigarettes	Stand against e-cigarette use	Involvement to get rid of e-cigarettes	Support for e-cigarette companies to go out of business
	% (n)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Overall	–	–	5.12 (3.05)	2.92 (0.88)	2.90 (0.88)	2.99 (0.86)	2.99 (0.85)
Age	–	24.44 (3.40)	–	–	–	–	–
Race and ethnicity
Hispanic	14.1 (187)		4.10 (3.11)	2.69 (0.85)	2.72 (0.87)	2.84 (0.85)	2.79 (0.85)
Black	16.3 (216)		3.90 (3.99)	2.59 (0.97)	2.62 (0.90)	2.75 (0.96)	2.78 (0.88)
White	61.2 (811)		5.70 (2.79)	3.10 (0.82)	3.06 (0.84)	3.11 (0.82)	3.12 (0.82)
Other race	8.5 (112)		4.92 (2.97)	2.71 (0.78)	2.62 (0.82)	2.81 (0.83)	2.81 (0.83)
Gender
Men	49.8 (645)		5.71 (2.95)	3.04 (0.86)	3.01 (0.89)	3.05 (0.88)	3.09 (0.86)
Women	50.2 (651)		4.57 (3.07)	2.83 (0.88)	2.81 (0.85)	2.94 (0.85)	2.92 (0.83)
Education
≤high school/GED	39.4 (523)		4.64 (3.10)	2.82 (0.90)	2.82 (0.90)	2.93 (0.88)	2.90 (0.87)
Some college	26.9 (357)		5.07 (3.03)	3.01 (0.82)	2.96 (0.81)	3.03 (0.85)	3.07 (0.82)
≥college degree	33.8 (449)		5.71 (2.92)	2.97 (0.88)	2.95 (0.89)	3.02 (0.85)	3.04 (0.85)
Annual household income
<US$75 000	48.8 (648)		4.40 (3.11)	2.62 (0.92)	2.63 (0.90)	2.74 (0.93)	2.72 (0.89)
≥US$75 000	51.2 (681)		5.80 (2.61)	3.21 (0.73)	3.16 (0.77)	3.22 (0.72)	3.25 (0.72)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual	88.3 (1143)		5.29 (3.05)	2.97 (0.87)	2.94 (0.87)	3.02 (0.86)	3.05 (0.83)
LGB+	11.7 (152)		4.37 (2.79)	2.72 (0.86)	2.72 (0.81)	2.83 (0.88)	2.68 (0.84)

Other race category includes individuals identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, multiracial or ‘other’; LGB+ category includes individuals identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or ‘something else’; some n totals for categories within variables do not sum to total sample size due to sporadic missing data (<3% of cases for any individual variable); anti-e-cigarette attitude level of agreement 1=strongly disagree to 4=strongly agree.